Hellsing is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kouta Hirano. Hirano began publishing chapter of prequel series, Hellsing: The Dawn, in special edition of Young KIng OURs. and release as of September 2008. // Plot: In this prequel to Hellsing Ultimate (2006), Hellsing agents Alucard and young Walter, the resourceful Hellsing family butler, are sent to Nazi-occupied Europe in 1944 to stop the Nazis' attempt to create a vampire army.